Appointment of Alma Lee Gildenhorn as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The President today announced his intention to appoint Alma Lee Gildenhorn to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution, for a term expiring September 1, 1996. She would succeed John G. Spatuzza.

Mrs. Gildenhorn is currently cochairman, Washington Committee for the Endowment of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Previously she was president of Bristol Antiques, 1973-1984.

Mrs. Gildenhorn graduated from the University of Maryland (B.A., 1953). Mrs. Gildenhorn is married, has two children, and she currently resides in Bethesda, MD. She was born January 14, 1932, in Baltimore, MD.